St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-02
When an Enrolment of Fiji
teen Thousand Pupils is
Expected.
Additions and improvements
in Many of the Old School
Buildings.
Some Changes in the Courses
Of Study---Looking Out
For Health.
NEARLY SCHOOL TIME.
Pupils to Answer the Bell for the
Fall Term Next Monday.

Fall Term Next Monday.
The budding youth and the gleeful
maiden and the small boys that play
marbles lay aside their summer play
things next week, for the long summer
vacation is about over, and on Monday
begins the next school term. All pub
lie schools will open then, and the pre-
cOciOuS pupil, hard to handle, will be
seated again in the STRAIGHTFORWARD COM
binatiOn seat and desk, and will spend a
few hours each day in persuing the pre-
Scribed text books, playing practical
and getting marked up and down. The
ordinary boy doesn't like to be trained,
and a season of hard decipline is not
very inviting after delightful period
of relaxation.
The school facilities this year are ex-
cellent, although the twenty seven
school buildings now in operation may
be somewhat crowded, but probably all
the new schools will be ready before the
close of the year. A talk with Supt.
Taylor discloses the fact that the present
aggregate school capacity of the city is
$1,000 pupils. Last year there was an
enrolment of about IL, 500, being an in
crease of 1000 over the year before. On
the basis of that increase, allowing $500
for this year, he estimates that the en-
rollment for this term will be nearly, if
not quite, $1,000.
Additions to present school buildings
are being put up as follows:
Van Buren,, six rooms Cleveland, six
rooms; Jefferson, six rooms; German, four
rooms.
Supt. Taylor anticipates that the
Cleveland and German school additions
will be ready about Oct. 1, and those of
the Van Buren, and Jefferson schools
about Christmas. New schools are go
ing up at Manchester Park, four rooms !;
Hamline, eightrooms; st. Anthony Park
north, four rooms; Como, eight rooms,
and one on Mississippi street north of
four rooms.
TWO MORE SCHOOLS PROPOSED.
These viii accommodate the present
suburban needs, and Mr.. Taylor thinks
they will be ready about the end of the
present term, or soon after. Then there
are two more proposed school buildings,
one to be an outlet of the Madison and
Jefferson schools, the other. an eighteen
or twenty-four room building, to take
the place of the Humboldt school on the
West side. Work upon them will COM
mence next year.
''These new buildings and these new
additions" says Mr.. Taylor, fought to
accommodate the school needs of this
city for the next five years."
The number of teachers to be en-
ployed is 800. The increase of enroll
ment and school accommodations has
been so great that the superintendent
of drawing and penmanship each asks
for an assistant, this being the first year
that such request has been made.
The capacity of the High school will
be tested to its utmost the coming term.
for the enrolment is expected to reach
$50, or even SIS, scholars. A twelve
room addition is now going up, work
upon the excavation for the foundation
and basement having been commenced.
1t is to equal the present structure in
beauty and style of architecture.
The basement of the addition will be
fitted up for the manual training de-
partment, which will begin at the COM
mencement of the new year, under the
supervision of Mr.. Bennett, a graduate
of the Worcester, Mass, school of tech
nolOgy. At first the school of manual
training will be for the benefit of the
male scholars of the High school, that is,
of those who desire to take advantage of
it; and if it works satisfactorily pupils
from the Grammar schools will then be
admitted.
In the High school this term English
composition will take the Place of gram
mar, the study of grammar being COM
pleted in the district schools. In the
will be taken up. These are the only
innovations.
SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS.
The general sanitary condition, as re-
CARDS ventilation, heating and the ac-
cOmmodations of the pupils of the
schools all over the city. is regarded as
superior to that of any previous year.
The dry-air closets are great improve
ment, and will contribute greatly to the
general health of the scholars, assisting
very much in ventilating and keeping
the school air pure.
1.-THE Ruttan system of heating faid Mr..
Taylor. lis working wonders in the matter of
ventilation and general comfort, and our
schools, from being once very defective in
these respects, are now among the best and
healthiest in the country. In regard
instructed all principals and teach
ers to allow them every opportunity.
especially in the primaries, and in case of q
doubt as to whether the scholar is sincere or
Invariably to the side of mercy No child Is
admitted to any school without a certificate
showing that he has been yaccinated. and
whenever pupil is taken with scarlet fever
measles, diphtheria or other contagious dis
ease, he is sent home, and all the other chill
dren of the same family. and they are kept
away from school until a medical certificate
is produced showing that no trace of the dis
ease remains. If a child is found afflicted
with lice, fleas or like vermin we send him
home to be thoroughly fumigated and made
perfectly Clean But have yet to see a flea,
bedbug orlouse i'll our schools. Indeed, we
are extremely careful in precautions against
contagious diseases and uncleanliness.
The first general meeting of the teach
erS will be held at 10 a. IN. tomorrow in
High school hall.